CVE-2026-84078 IBM Guardium Data Protection - Authentication Bypass

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains a broken authentication caused by missing authentication in LoadBalancerServlet, letting unauthenticated users perform privileged load-balancer operations, exploit requires no authentication.

CVSS base score 9.9 /10
Critical
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Not required
EPSS
0.47% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Authentication Bypass
Impact
Broken Access Control, Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Published
18 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-306

Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of IBM Guardium Data Protection.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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